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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [214r] (427/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Consular Affairs.
146. The long drawn out negotiations for the purchase of a site for His
Majesty’s consulate at Ahwaz advanced considerably during the year. At the
beginning of the year there were anxious moments when it appeared that the
Iranian Government intended to go back on the assurance given in April 1936 that
there would be no difficulty over the sale of the land to His Majesty’s Government
in the United Kingdom. The Ministry of Education and even higher quarters
appeared to have designs on the site. Eventually at the end of April, after
constant pressure from His Majesty’s Legation, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
stated officially that the Iranian Government agreed to the sale of the site to His
Majesty’s Government, provided no request for any more land was made in the
future. The remainder of the year was spent in negotiations over the exact price
and other details. It was found that there was a discrepancy between the figures
held by His Majesty’s Legation and those held by the Ministry of Finance for the
areas of the different portions of the site (the value of which varied greatly owing
to the liability to flooding of parts of the site). The site was accurately
resurveyed by a surveyor of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, but the results of his
survey had not been accepted by the Iranian Government at the end of the year,
as a rexamination of the site by the local authorities was still awaited. Diffi
culties arose through the claim of the municipality that a strip 30 metres wide
along the river bank was their property under Iranian law, and also through their
desire to build a road across a part of the site. After negotiations with the
Minister of Finance, a compromise was reached locally, by which the two strips
of land would be sold to His Majesty’s Government on the condition that they
would be resold to the municipality at the same price if required for the construc
tion of roads. This compromise was accepted by His Majesty’s Government,
subject to a ten-year limit to the obligation to resell the strip for the road across
the site. The Iranian Government’s agreement to the compromise as accepted by
His Majesty’s Government was awaited at the end of the year.
147. The death of the Sheikh of Mohammerah in 1936 gave rise to some
difficulty over the tenure of His Majesty’s vice-consulate at Khorramshahr. The
house, which was his property, had been occupied for many years without any
formal lease, the same rent having been paid annually to the sheikh since the house
was first taken in 1892. The sheikh left a large number of heirs, whose affairs
were in great confusion, and it was not known whether the Iranian Government
would allow them to inherit his property in Khuzistan. Attempts were made in
1936 to discover from the representative of the heirs what the exact position as
regards the vice-consulate was, but without success. It was believed that Colonel
Bayendor had his eye on this property, which would make a most suitable
Admiralty House. In these circumstances it was clearly of great importance to
obtain a valid lease of the property as soon as possible. This was likely to be
very difficult, and, as it was not even known to whom the rent should now be paid,
as a first step it was decided to put this enquiry to the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs. In spite of constant reminders it was not possible to obtain any reply
before the end of the year. Thus, nothing could be done to obtain a proper lease.
148. The maintenance of the consular rest-house and office at Isfahan for
a second year was sanctioned during the year. The results of the first year’s
working showed that the experiment had been well justified. His Majesty s
consul at Shiraz paid two visits of about a month each to Isfahan, while for four
months in the summer the house was occupied by Messrs. Sarell and Cecil, pro
bationer vice-consuls attached for language study to His Majesty’s consulate at
Shiraz. His Majesty’s Legation were thus able to obtain a considerable amount
of information regarding the Isfahan district, while a tour made by Mr. Sarell
through a part of the Bakhtiari country provided valuable information about
the condition of the Bakhtiari tribes, of which little had been heard since the
discontinuance of the Bakhtiari tour formerly made each year by His Majesty’s
consul at Ahwaz.
149. As in recent years, as many visits as possible were exchanged with His
Majesty’s consular officers in Iran. Official liaison visits to Tehran were made by
His Majesty’s consuls at Ahwaz, Shiraz and Tabriz and by the acting British
vice-consul at Khorramshahr. Every consular post in Iran, with the exception
of Kerman and Bandar Abbas, was visited during the year either by His
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (320 folios)
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The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 321; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.
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- Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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